The chronic administration of docosahexaenoic acid reduces the spatial cognitive deficit following transient forebrain ischemia in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-25

  Okada, M ^a,e   Amamoto, T ^b   Tomonaga, M ^b   Kawachi, A ^a   Yazawa, K ^c   Mine, K ^d   Fujiwara, M ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Arachidonic acid; Cerebral ischemia; Docosahexaenoic acid; Hypoxia; Memory; NADH

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SLICE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXIA; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030053439     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00427-0     Document Type: Article

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